This superior selection has a great scortch resistance and tolerates high heat and sunny locations; its low tight mat-forming habit makes it ideal for massing and sunny slopes

Garden Stars Perennials

The Garden Stars® Perennial Collection is a complete line of all your traditional perennial favorites with some exciting new varieties too! These perennials are grown by a network of trusted growers to provide you the highest quality plants for your garden. These varieties have been selected for hardiness, compact growth, and consistent, reliable flower color. Perfect for planting in: garden beds, perennial borders, rock, cottage, prairie or woodland gardens, & even pots on the patio!

Ornamental Features

Goldwell Creeping Speedwell has masses of beautiful spikes of sky blue flowers with lavender overtones rising above the foliage from late spring to early summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. Its attractive small narrow leaves emerge chartreuse in spring, turning green in color with distinctive gold edges throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes

Goldwell Creeping Speedwell is a dense herbaceous perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Goldwell Creeping Speedwell is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Mass Planting

Rock/Alpine Gardens

Border Edging

General Garden Use

Groundcover

Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Goldwell Creeping Speedwell will grow to be only 4 inches tall at maturity extending to 6 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 18 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 14 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 8 years.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Goldwell Creeping Speedwell is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. Because of its spreading habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden. Be aware that in our climate, most plants cannot be expected to survive the winter if left in containers outdoors, and this plant is no exception. Contact our store for more information on how to protect it over the winter months.